I wrapped the ties of the plastic lobster bib around my neck and stared at the bright red lobster on my plate. I was in Maine, where lobster is plentiful and less expensive than in the Midwestern ...

Bill Ballard shines a flashlight onto a male Zaire blue moba as it swims in a tank at Prairie Creek Aquatics, 7828 26th Avenue, in Watkins, Iowa, on Wednesday, April 16, 2025. Ballard has a male and ...

"OK, everyone, stand back!" announced the person preparing our food. We were at a "fish boil" outside a restaurant in Wisconsin at the time. My three kids, husband and I obediently backed up almost to ...

My friend Bob Jensen of Grand Forks called the other day wondering if I wanted to go walleye fishing. There was a new North Dakota lake he wanted to explore before taking some grandkids fishing, and ...

The minnow U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ecologists pulled from the shallow moat was a puny thing, with a flare of orange rimming its fins and a dark band of scales running the full length of its ...